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Online Advertising Creativity: Contest, Promotions, Sweepstakes: Threshold Interactive; Nestle, "Dude, Where's My Bar?"

Threshold Interactive
Nestle, "Dude, Where's My Bar?"

CONTEST, PROMOTIONS, SWEEPSTAKES

Online Advertising Creativity: Contest, Promotions, Sweepstakes: Threshold Interactive

Seth Green's snarky humor - and the media's endless gullibility - is perfectly matched in Threshold's work for Butterfingers. The agency created a cross-platform cpg alternative reality game to pitch the candy and a suitably wacky award: a solid gold Butterfinger bar worth 10k. Aside from the cash-for-gold bonanza, the game, which began with Green's publicized "mugging" - costing him a century-old Butterfinger bar - hooked contestants. The ongoing narrative included 14 original videos, two microsites, social media and rich media rolled out over three weeks.

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